Author Archives: Jessica's Media

Balancing Motherhood and Entrepreneurship as a Mom and Business Owner

Balancing motherhood and entrepreneurship is a journey filled with love, ambition, and imperfect progress. In this personal post, I’m sharing the reality of raising a family while building a business and learning to find balance along the way.

Starting a Wedding Planning Business: The Story Behind Petals Planners

Wedding Business Journey A New Chapter: Building Petals Planners & Posts A personal look at how Petals Planners began, what we offer, and why helping couples celebrate well has become such a meaningful part of this journey. Over the past few months, something exciting has been taking shape behind the scenes. What started as conversations,ContinueContinue reading “Starting a Wedding Planning Business: The Story Behind Petals Planners”

Flooring Installation: Bringing Warmth & Flow Into Our Custom Home | Custom Home Build Series

After months of framing, drywall, paint, and trim, installing the flooring was the moment our house finally started to feel like a home. Walls and rooms are one thing, but once the floors go in, everything connects literally and visually. This stage came with a lot of planning, patience, and a few lessons learned alongContinueContinue reading “Flooring Installation: Bringing Warmth & Flow Into Our Custom Home | Custom Home Build Series”

Painting, Interior Trim & Driveway Installation: The Details That Made Our House Feel Like Home | Custom Home Build Series

This phase of the build took longer than we expected—but looking back, it’s easy to see why. Between painting, trim installation, and exterior access, there were a lot of details packed into this stage. These are the kinds of projects that don’t always feel exciting while you’re in them, but they completely change how theContinueContinue reading “Painting, Interior Trim & Driveway Installation: The Details That Made Our House Feel Like Home | Custom Home Build Series”

Interior Fixtures and Exterior Finishes | Custom Home Build Series

By this stage of the build, things shifted in a big way—both for the house and for me. I had officially left my bank job and was now working on our home full time. What started as nights, weekends, and “when we can” quickly turned into an all-in, every-day commitment. And honestly? It was exactlyContinueContinue reading “Interior Fixtures and Exterior Finishes | Custom Home Build Series”

Installing Insulation, Drywall, and Our Fire Sprinkler System | Custom Home Build Series

After what felt like nonstop delays earlier in the build, this phase moved quickly—almost too quickly. Installing insulation and drywall was one of those moments where everything started to come together at once, and suddenly the house felt less like a construction site and more like an actual home. We also added something during thisContinueContinue reading “Installing Insulation, Drywall, and Our Fire Sprinkler System | Custom Home Build Series”

Rough Plumbing, Electrical, and HVAC | Custom Home Build Series

Once framing was complete, the house quickly moved into a phase that doesn’t look very exciting from the outside—but is everything on the inside. This is where the house starts to function, not just stand. Rough plumbing, electrical, and HVAC are the systems that make a home livable, and this stage came with a mixContinueContinue reading “Rough Plumbing, Electrical, and HVAC | Custom Home Build Series”

Rough Framing Begins (With a Few Unexpected Twists) | Custom Home Build Series

Once the foundation was complete and the basement floor was poured, it finally felt like we were ready for the “exciting” part of building a home—watching it go up. This is the stage where your house starts to look like an actual house instead of a very expensive hole in the ground. Unfortunately, as we’veContinueContinue reading “Rough Framing Begins (With a Few Unexpected Twists) | Custom Home Build Series”

Foundation Delivery and Basement Concrete Pour  | Custom Home Build Series

Superior Walls My husband and I are now years into our home-building project, and for the first time, we’re finally starting to see real progress every day. The last few months brought more than a few challenges – permits, clearing, digging but I truly believe we are now on the upswing. Once excavation and levelingContinueContinue reading “Foundation Delivery and Basement Concrete Pour  | Custom Home Build Series”

How I Built My Custom Home: A Step-by-Step Journey

In my personal experience Building your new home is exciting, especially when you understand how the process works. It has always been my dream to have a custom home made just for me. I never truly thought that dream would become a reality, but when my dad offered to help my newlywed husband and meContinueContinue reading “How I Built My Custom Home: A Step-by-Step Journey”

What I Learned From Being a Model

Different Types of Modeling From my modeling start in 2011, to the present, I aim for greatness in every photo and video that I am fortunate enough to be a part of. I meet wonderful skilled photographers and videographers who work hard everyday to make their dreams come true and help me reach my goals.ContinueContinue reading “What I Learned From Being a Model”

Wedding Planning, the Beginning

Where to start? I got engaged while on vacation in Mexico to my live in boyfriend and had no ideas on how to get started. I am not a planner type of person and don’t get me started on my non existent savings account. I hear that planning a wedding can be one of theContinueContinue reading “Wedding Planning, the Beginning”

East Coast USA Pageant’s first Spooktacular means first Supreme title for Veyha

On October 11th, 2020 Veyha Omeis, age 9, competed in a Halloween themed natural beauty pageant in Towson MD. Though this was not her first time competing with ECUSA Pageants, it was her first big win. Veyha was pulled from her age division and was able to take the runway with a Supreme title. WhenContinueContinue reading “East Coast USA Pageant’s first Spooktacular means first Supreme title for Veyha”

Green Eggs and Ham

Warner Bros. Animation If you owned a book as a child, my bet is that it had a cat with a hat on it. As a mother I try to read to my daughter often even when she doesn’t want to settle down. My daughter loves Dr. Seuss books and the first book she learnedContinueContinue reading “Green Eggs and Ham”

How to Animate

Want to learn how? Well I am not an expert on Adobe Animate and I am not qualified to teach you that is for sure… But I can give you a video that will give you a quick three minute tutorial on Animate for Beginners created by DanIsTheGr8est on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cw-_vMMiaRo Recap on Dan’s VideoContinueContinue reading “How to Animate”

Animate Beginner

Learning my way around Animate At this point in my life, I have been using Adobe products such as In-Design, Photoshop, Lightroom, Publisher, and various Adobe clouds products. But I have not had the chance to work with Adobe Animate until now. But I must say I… this program! That’s right, I cant get enoughContinueContinue reading “Animate Beginner”

Into the World of Animation

My first week in 2-D Animation This is my first Animation Blog and my first time learning about animation! I am a student a Bowie State University on my senior year as a Broadcast Journalism Major. Why am I doing this? I am taking this class for fun and to learn more about animation becauseContinueContinue reading “Into the World of Animation”